Word: nordics
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...carrying "to triumph the Cross of Christ" in Ethiopia. But in his sermon, published last week in Milan's Catholic daily, Italia, Cardinal Schuster denounced Mussolini's racist policy as "a kind of heresy . . . an international danger no less than that of Bolshevism itself." Said he: "This Nordic philosophy, which has become theosophy and policy at the same time, does it not perhaps constitute a forge upon which are formed the most murderous weapons for war to come...
German artists are also noted for their humor and ability to ridicule. The series of sketches by Adolph Oberlaender entitled "The Piano's Revenge" is a typical example of Nordic humor and caricature. Savage satirization also has its place here, particularly on social conditions, as in the work, of Georg Crosz...
...Powys and Ford belong to the same genus of bookworm, their appetites differ in numerous details. Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...
Laureate of the hyperthyroid era was Jack London, socialist and believer in Nordic supremacy, who wrote 50 books in 16 years and lived as strenuously as the he-men he wrote about. In Sailor on Horseback, Irving Stone, whose novelized biography of van Gogh, Lust for Life, was a best-seller four years ago, gives a good picture of London's incredible literary labors, a good account of his strenuous domestic life, a dim picture of the period in which his books flourished. Originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, Sailor on Horseback is brisk and candid...
...minute minority of 48,000 Jews were fearful last month that their luck might be running out (TIME, July 18). Last week they learned officially that it was running out indeed. On the heels of a manifesto drawn up by ten Fascist savants, declaring that Italians are "Aryan, Nordic and heroic" and that "Jews do not belong to the Italian race," came announcement from Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace that the Government had prepared a series of laws to "defend the race against all contamination...